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Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought

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Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought - Steiner, George, Mr.
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According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between Antigone and Creon-between the state and the individual, between man and woman, between young and old-has captured the Western imagination for more than 2000 years. George Steiner here examines the far-reaching legacy of this great classical myth. He considers its treatment in ...

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Antigones: How the Antigone Legend Has Endured in Western Literature, Art, and Thought 1996, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300069150

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